Cast: Elisabeth Bergner

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Elisabeth Bergner. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Rise of Catherine the Great

1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Czinner · Alexander Korda

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Flora Robson · Gerald du Maurier

Synopsis A quick-witted and compelling dramatization of the troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner, in her English-language debut) to Peter III (a randy Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and her subsequent ascension to the throne as Empress of...

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5.6

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Cry of the Banshee

1970 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast Vincent Price · Hilary Dwyer · Carl Rigg · Patrick Mower

Synopsis The puritanical magistrate Edward Whitman puts the followers of the witch Oona to the death, although deliberately spares her. She swears vengeance for this and calls up a manifestation of the Devil in the guise of the young, handsome Roderick....

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4.8

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As You Like It

1936 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Henry Ainley · Felix Aylmer · Laurence Olivier

Synopsis A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own...

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Ariane

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Rudolf Forster · Annemarie Steinsieck · Hertha Guthmar

Synopsis Ariane was Hungarian director Paul Czinner's first talking picture. Starring in the title role is Czinner's charming wife, Elizabeth Bergner, likewise making her talkie debut. Young, naive Ariane sets herself for an emotional fall when she falls in love with...

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Escape me never

1935 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Hugh Sinclair · Griffith Jones · Penelope Dudley-Ward

Synopsis Drama based on the play of Margaret Kennedy. Sanger composer is torn between love for two women. Although he married Gemma, a young defenseless, who is secretly loves Fenella, his brother's wife Caryl.

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Dreaming Lips

1937 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

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Direction John Olden · Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Hansjörg Felmy · Dietmar Schönherr · Brigitte Grothum

Synopsis The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Frau Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She...

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Dreaming Lips

1932 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Rudolf Forster · Anton Edthofer · Margarethe Hruby

Synopsis The young Gaby (Elisabeth Bergner) is happily married to the musician Peter (Anton Edthofer) but cannot ignore the impression that his friend Michael (Rudolf Forster), a violin virtuoso, makes on her. Even when Peter falls seriously ill, she cannot forget...

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Love

1927 · Movie · Germany

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Miss Else

1929 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Albert Basserman · Albert Steinrück · Adele Sandrock

Synopsis Else is in St. Moritz, holidaying with an aunt and cousin. All’s right with the world, until word comes that her father, a lawyer in Vienna, faces bankruptcy through speculating with clients’ funds. Ruin can only be averted with financial...

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Strogoff

1970 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Eriprando Visconti

Cast John Phillip Law · Mimsy Farmer · Hiram Keller · Delia Boccardo

Synopsis A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.

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The Pedestrian

1973 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Maximilian Schell

Cast Gustav Rudolf Sellner · Peter Hall · Alexander May · Elsa Wagner

Synopsis When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece.

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Paris Calling

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Randolph Scott · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to...

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